Thursday 21 August 2025
The Capachino Standard
No matter where I go in the world I try to assess a competitive standard of living with the UK . Now at present I am in Spain and my infallible method of assessment is what I call “ The Capachino Standard”
I compare the price of a capachino in wherever I am, to the price of a capachino in a comparable venue back home in Scotland.
Now, the standard I use back home is the price of a capachino in the likes of Costa or Starbucks , both of which I personally do not use back home because of their connections with the genocidal, terrorist state of Israel and the fact that. Startbucks coffee is shit.
However, both of these organisation sell a capachino for £3.65.
Where I am at present in Spain and in a tourist area ( where prices are generally higher) the price if a capachino is 2 Euros, that is £ 1. 70 in UK money.
Therefore that tells me that our economy is lagging behind the Euro area by about, just less than 50%
This works in about right with the buisness I am involved in which is in the automotive industry which has seen , parts price increases of above 50% , in some cases more than 100%. Since Brexit.
Now, although I was a strident advocate for remaining in the EU in the lead up to the referendum, I have had a serious re- think since, owing to the fact that the countries in the EU and of course Britain have taken crazy and disgusting stances on both Ukraine and Gaza.
Therefore my position now would be to derive the benefits of a very large market without the adhesion to what
Is becoming a failed state with the leaders at present in power in the EU.
My preference for an independent Scotland would be for membership of the EEA ( the European Economic Area)
That way we would derive the benefits without having to abide by stupid policies that the present Circus of clowns who are leading the EU Into.
So, anyway so sum up , I think all future economic standards should henceforth be in keeping with the Capachino directive .
Day 7 of my trip allong the coast of
France and Spain and a few photos of the trip which has been made rather pleasant by the nice people at the dinner table.
Bob Costello 
Nice blog, blog, Bob. I enjoyed your standard of quality and price. Good photos too – have you noticed how Spanish drain covers are always well made and interesting? (‘Cappuccino’) Keep ’em coming. Gareth.
Haven’t noticed that Gareth but I have been noticing the small concrete motives in pavements and assumed they were some sort of surveying marker.
‘Manhole’ covers, is more accurat, Bob. And no chewing gum on pavements. Weather here good, almost Spanish, but unlike coffee beans, am not yet roasted.